IN WILD PAPUA
NEW DISCOVERIES
ENCOUNTERS WITH CANNIBALS
RABAUL, July 22,
After frequent encounters with hostile cannibals wearing wigs of human hair, and carrying. daggers made, of human thigh bones, an assistant Magistrate, Mr. J. G. Hides, and PatrolOfflcer L. J. O'Malley, returned to Port Moresby after a dangerous six months' exploration in the interior of Papua. Their patrol crossed from the Strickland River to the Purari River, most of the route being over a plateau 7000 feet high. They discovered previously unknown country consisting of a wonderfully fertile valley carrying a big population of natives of a fine type, with definite Asiatic characteristics.
The patrol suffered no casualties in the encounters with natives. The number of the attackers' casualties is unknown. The whole party was troubled by extreme hunger, cold, and exposure, three natives dying.
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Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 9
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136IN WILD PAPUA Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 9
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